Flank Steak Taco Competition

I am always trying new recipes that I find on the internet. Partly because I can never find the recipe I liked, but also because I am trying to improve what I eat.  Tonight, I decided to make a head-to-head battle of Korean Tacos using a marinade that I have used before with an Asian BBQ sauce I found at Whole Foods.  I began by cutting my flank steak in half.






The first marinade had:
2 tablespoons soy sauce 
1/4 cup sugar or 1/6 cup of Agave Nectar1 tablespoon minced garlic 2 teaspoons Asian sesame oil 2 teaspoons mirin 
2 teaspoons water
1 Tablespoon of cilantro
2 tablespoons of ginger

 The second marinade was just the bottle of Asian BBQ I found at Costco.


I put both in a Ziploc bag and refrigerated overnight.

 The next day, I pan-fried both steak in their juices on medium for about 10-15 minutes.











While the steak was cooking I made the salad for tacos. I will forewarn you, I made a mistake grocery shopping. I don't know if I am the only one in the world but I need to grocery shop ALONE. I get very overwhelmed in the store even when I have a grocery list. All of the colors, sounds, people, sale signs, etc. just overwhelms me. I get very distracted and can often forget things. In this case, I mixed up things. I meant to get shredded cabbage but instead got shredded lettuce...it worked in this recipe but would have been better if it was cabbage.

 I used 1 cup of shredded lettuce and added 1/2 lime.

 I added 4 thinly sliced radishes

 and 3 thinly sliced mini-cucumbers.

 I then added 1 tablespoon of cilantro, 1 teaspoon of mirin, 1 tablespoon of sirachi, and 1 tablespoon of soy sauce. Mix well.

 By this time, the meat should be completely cooked. This was the 1st marinaded meat.

 This was the Asian BBQ sauce marinade.

I warmed up the tortillas (A step I used to skip and have learned not since I tried it with a warm tortilla!) added 2-3 slices of meat, sour cream (OF COURSE!!!) and the lettuce mixture.


Pros: Good flavors. My boyfriend choose instead to make rice and served the meat and lettuce over rice and loved it.

Cons: As I mentioned before...cabbage would have been better. Meat was too tough. Maybe it was the way I cooked it.

Conclusion: Marinade #1 was the best! It has great Asian flavors as opposed to the 2nd marinade that had more of a smoky BBQ flavor.  A very filling meal. :)